Rebel chief clears way for Gaddafi to stay in Libya

The Independent Sunday 3rd July, 2011

In an effort to end the bloody civil war, Libya's rebel administration publicly accepted for the first time yesterday that peace talks could start without Colonel Muammar Gaddafi being forced into exile. The insistence of the opposition, and its Western sponsors, that the Libyan leader and his family must leave the country before negotiations can take place has been one of the main obstructions to a ceasefire.But the head of the Transitional National Council (TNC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said yesterday that Colonel Gaddafi could stay in Libya, under "international supervision", while talks got under way.

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